Pattern Paper Challenge

At the Crate Paper's blog I read this:
Who doesn't look at a quilt and think, "Now that would be great on paper!"?

Well,  as a quilter myself I have thought this many times! This week's Creative Weekly is about maximizing pattern, taking it the next level and making it the central focus of one's design. And Crate paper asked to participate in this challenge, so I did!

One of my favorite quilt blocks is the nine patch. A very simple block, but with great effects in a quilt. I've chosen two of my favorite patterns from Emma's shoppe and created the background for my card. As a sort of applique I put a border and a flower with one of the chipboard elements and felt. The sentiment is from Papertrey 2012 Birthday Tags. I did some stitching to give it a quilt effect. That's my 'quilt card'!

Enjoy today and thanks for coming by! 

Lollipop

First of all, thank you so much for your lovely comments on my previous post with the baby cards! I love sending cards, but as you probably can imagine, this time it was a bit hard to say goodbye to these ones :).
I made the cards for the Dutch Card Lovers- Challenge and I won! Thank you, DCL-team!
Add: I've just found out that I'm also in the top-3 at 'A passion for papertrey' blog! 

Due to the warm weather of the last few days I haven't made cards but one. I started late in the evening when the temperature dropped and finished it the next morning early... Again I used Emma's shoppe. The polka dots are stamped with PTI's polka dot 1 set. I've still got many chipboard elements of this line, but it's hard for me to use them although I really like the elements. Maybe, they are a bit to big for cards. But this lollipop fits perfectly.

For today no special plans, just some cleaning and preparing for the new school year which starts next week.  And maybe some crafting in the evening! 

Wish you a lovely day! 

Back to normal life

Our life is almost back to daily routine, although I've got holidays till the end of next week. The children who spent their holiday with us left last weekend and after some cleaning and washing the laundry our house is back in normal position. We had a great time together, but it definitely took a lot of energy. But we enjoyed their smiles! I stamped with them as well and they liked it a lot. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of the results. Of course I helped them a bit, but they had a creative mind and the cards turned out well!

This afternoon I transferred the guestroom back  into craft room. So I can reach all my stuff and use the sewing machine, cuttlebug and other equipment more easily. And of course I made a card. I've got many left overs from Crate Paper's Emma Shoppe and I liked to use them. The result is a bit chaotic... I hope my friend will  like the card!

Guess what! I've won the give away on Inge's blog!  Inge will send me a set of cards, created by Revlie. Lucky me! Thank you, Inge and Revlie!

Thank you for hopping by and see you soon! 

I'm back...

Finally, I finished my tests yesterday!! It were hard weeks and feel a bit tired. Now I have to wait for the results, but I am quit satisfied with the tests and my answers, so I hope to get a good message! Between the hours of learning I needed some time to relax of course. And so I made a couple of cards. Two of them I'll show today! And as you probably will see: I discovered the seam binding. Good stuff! I always fight with satin ribbon to make a nice bow or knot. Whit this ribbon it doesn't matter. It a bit of  'chaotic' use and the results are great! Ordered a couple of colors and I think you will see more of it the coming weeks!

Both cards are made with materials of Crate Paper, PTI, buttons, sewing machine, seam binding and ribbon!

Thanks for coming by and I wish you a very nice weekend!!

New stock

I'm back home from Cambridge, UK. We had a very nice week in a beautiful city! And it was a very useful week for the language study! For this week I have totally dived into the books for the tests this week and next week. But there are some small gaps for relaxing in on my 'atelier' with all the paper stuff and so on! It is my plan to make some cards to have in stock. Today's cards is (again!) made with Emma's shoppe. The background is stamped with WMS - Off beat in sunflower yellow. I don't have a stamp to frame the label nr 4, so I made my own by using a stamp from the PTI Vintage labels 1.

The sentiment stamp is part of a set by Artemio and I have bought it at Crafts and Things in Antwerpen, Belgium. I love this set, because of the nice font and the Dutch sentiments (congratulations). I don't like most of the Dutch sentiment, because of the font. So if anyone can design something in a WMS or PTI style in Dutch, I will be your first client!

Back to work for today! Thanks for coming by! 

WMS sketch challenge 48

Hi!

I made this card for our aunt and uncle who have been married for 50 years! I used the sketch from WMSC and paper from Emma's shoppe (Crate paper). The background is from the WMS Off Beat stamp set and I stamped it with Antique Linen.The flower die is from Marianne Design.
Thank you, Edna, for this sketch!

Thanks for coming by!

Thinking of you

I made this card for friends who have been going through difficult times. I hope it cheers them up a little bit.

As you can see Emma's shoppe is my favorite at this moment :) Although there are many more beautiful paper lines. Maybe my next challenge is to make a card with another paper line!

I have started the countdown for my trip to Romania. Next Thursday I'll leave for 9 days with a groups of teenagers for an exchange with a school in Cluj-Napoca. Looking forward to see friends and acquintances overthere! So, I'm not sure when posting the next message!

See you!

Happy Birthday to my mother!

Today it's my mother's birthday. We will celebrate it tonight. She get this card made with Crate Paper - Emma's shoppe.